By Nick Ryan

Liberty Debate Institute

To ensure that you respond to all of the opposing teams arguments.

So that you can see which arguments the other team fails to respond to.

Help You In the Class Room

So that you can visually see the progression of arguments, that the judge will utilize in determining a winner.

Traditional Method

Pen

Paper

New School

Laptop

Excel or Equivalent Spreadsheet program

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In order of importance:

Claims or Conclusions (Tag)

Citation (Author and the Date)

Summary of the Evidence (Claims From the Card)

3. Economic collapse causes nuclear war and extinction Bearden, U.S. Army (Retired), 2000 [T.E., LTC, U.S. Army, “The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve

It Quickly,” http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aaf97f22e23.htm, June 24]

  History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior

to the final economic collapse, the stress on nations will have increased the intensity and number of their conflicts, to the point where the arsenals of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now possessed by some 25 nations, are almost certain to be released. As an example, suppose a starving North Korea launches nuclear weapons upon Japan and South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal response. Or suppose a desperate China-whose long-range nuclear missiles (some) can reach the United States-attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses, the mutual treaties involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations into the conflict, escalating it significantly. Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such extreme stress conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries are then compelled to launch on perception of preparations by one's adversary. The real legacy of the MAD concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never discussed. Without effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all is to launch immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out its perceived foes as rapidly and massively as possible. As the studies showed, rapid escalation to full WMD exchange occurs. Today, a great percent of the WMD arsenals that will be unleashed, are already on site within the United States itself. The resulting great Armageddon will destroy civilization as we know it, and perhaps most of the biosphere, at least for many decades.

3. Economic Collapse NW & Extinction

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Desperate nations take desperate actions, mutual treaties draw in other nations, resulting in WMD exchange, and extinction.

What you should write down on your flow

Use Two Different Colors

Write Small

Leave Space between Arguments

Leave Space At the top of the page

Draw columns if you need to

Find way’s to identify cards from analytical arguments

Label the Top left of your flow

Use Numbers

Use identifiers for dropped arguments or voting issues

Flowing is for flowing

Don’t give up

Use abbreviations

$ Economy, Dollar

Ǿ Does Not

↑ Increase, Improves

↓ Decrease, Destroys

Δ Changes

< Less than

> Greater than

→ Causes, leads to

← Caused by

≠ Does not cause

! Impact

L/ Link

U/ Uniqueness

T Topicality

DA Disadvantage

K Kritik

CP Counterplan

P Perm

Ø Extinction

NW Nuclear War

Pre –flow

Backflow

Lefties

Always Flow

Fold them up and take notes on them

Keep them

Use them to improve your flowing